I'll get this out of the bag: I am easily annoyed.

One of my pet peeves is seeing people use a handicap door that obviously aren't handicapped. Come on! How lazy do you have to be to not pull open a door? The building our office is in has a set of these handicap friendly doors. I carry computers quite frequently to the office (it beats working on them in the schools sometimes) and I'm usually carrying something else. I never use the handicap doors. Why? Because I'm not handicapped! Despite having my arms full, I still manage to open a door.

As I am typing this little rant, I have found a new pet peeve. I am at a campus where some people with a little power do not want to spend $50 for a license of Office XP. It's a steal! Anyway, when they found out they couldn't load Office XP on every computer on campus without a license, the knee jerk reaction was to go with open source software (OSS). Now don't get me wrong, I have nothing against OSS, but Open Office flat out sucks. In fact, it's insulting my inteligence. I start typing, and whoa! It thinks it knows what I want to type, so it starts giving me some stupid options. By typing the word “the” the two letters “re” appear highlighted. Sure, hitting space leaves the word “the” and I can go on to my next word, but it's popping up on nearly every stinking word! If Sun wants to keep this “feature”, they need to program in some inteligence. If I'm typing the phrase, “Another thing”, Open Office doesn't need to pop up “Another things”. Come on, Sun. MS Office isn't even close to being this dumb.

Another thing that I've already gotten tired of is the constant popping up of the “Do you want to save” dialog box. No! I don't want to save! If I wanted to save, I'd hit Ctrl+S or run to the File menu.

Based upon my experience with this product, I'm sure not going to use it willingly. If this is one of the best things OSS has to offer, then what's the hullabaloo over OSS (other than they hate MS)?